Robert Bitker: what Wikipedia removed
Robert (Boris) Bitker was a military commander of the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun. Through October 2023 the opening noted he was also involved in the case of Zvi Frenkel, an Irgun militant who had killed an Arab in an act of retaliation using a gun he held illegally. Today’s opening states only that Bitker “was a military commander of the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun,” with the Frenkel case gone, though militant survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that Bitker’s record included the case of an Irgun militant who killed an Arab in an act of retaliation.
The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| militant | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The opening sentence was reworded with added Hebrew script transliteration; no fact was lost.
- The case of Zvi Frenkel, an Irgun militant who killed an Arab in an act of retaliation, was dropped from the opening paragraph.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 307524006):
Robert Bitker (1907-1977) was a Russian -born military commander of the Israeli paramilitary group Irgun . He operated in Shanghai prior to working at the organisation Headquarters, where he was later appointed Chief. He died in the United States in 1977, having emigrated. ^ “Robert Bitker” . Jewish Virtual Library . Retrieved 3 May 2009 .
2025 (revision 1292270865):
Irgun leader Robert (Boris) Bitker ( Hebrew : רוברט (בוריס) ביטקר ; 1907 - 1977) was a military commander of the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun .
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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